Henry walker



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H. WALKER.

BREEGH LOADING FIRE ARM.

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H. WALKER.

BREECH LOADING FIRE ARM.

1%. 284,518. Patented Sept. 4, 1883.

Witnesses.

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f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

IInNRY WALKER, or BIRMINGHAM, COUNTY or WARWIoK, ENGLAND.

BREECH-LDADING FIRE-ARM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,518, dated September 4, 1883. Application filed June 12, 1853. (No model.) Patented in England Apr-i130, 1881, No. 1,872.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY WALKER,a sub ject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, England, gun-manufacturer, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Breech-Loading Small-Arms, (for which I have received Letters Patent in Great Britain, No. 1,872, dated April 30, 1881,) of which the following is a specification. 4

My invention has reference to breech-loading small-arms of the kind called drop-down guns and pistols; and my said invention consistsoftheconstructionandarrangements,hereinafter described, of the parts for cocking and discharging the said small-arms and pistols.

I will describe my invention in connectionwith a double-barrel drop=down gun.

In constructing and arranging the parts according to my invention, for cocking and discharging the said guns, Iplace under the tang ofthe break-01f two quadrant-j ointed hammers, by which the gun is cocked and discharged. These quadrant-hammers are cocked and the springs compressed for discharging the said hammers from two curved faces of the lump. One of. the said curved faces of the lump operates through a rod a rocking lever for cocking the gun on the opening of the breech ends of the barrels for loading. The other inclined face of the lump acts upon a sliding link jointed to the said rocking lever, the long arm of which said lever compresses the springs (for discharging the hammers) by the closing of the barrels of the said guns, ashereinafter described.

I will now proceed to deseribe,with reference to the accompanying drawings,the manner in which my invention is to be performed.

Figures 1, 2, and 3 represent longitudinal vertical sections of the breech end of a dropdown gun containing cooking and discharging mechanism constructed according to my invention. Fig. 4 represents afront elevation of the '45 trigger-plate, with the principal parts of the mechanism attached. Fig. 5 shows a plan of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 represents the breech ends of the barrels, showing the curved faces of the lumps, the spring-compressing curved face heing shown in elevation; and Fig. 7 shows the same view as Fig. 6 turned round, and presenting the cooking curved facein elevation. Fig.

- 8 shows a front view of the two curved faces on the end of the lump. Figs. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 show the principal parts of the gun mechanism separately. In Fig-1 the barrel is represented shut down and the hammers cocked, ready for discharge. Fig. 2 represents the same section of the gun turned round with the hammers discharged; and Fig. 3showsthe barrel raised from the face of the break-oil and the hammer in bent, with the dischargingspring uncompressed, the compression of which is effected by the closing of the barrels.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in the several figures of the draw- Ings.

A is the hammer,working on the center A.

A is aquadrant-arm on the back of the said hammer, and A is the heel or rest of the long arm of the rocking lever B, for compressing the spring 0, working within the quadrantarm of the hammer. Over the axis of the said rocking lever is a rod or pusher, D, for pushing back the hammer into bent through the rocking arm B.

E is a sliding link jointed to and lying in front of the said rocking arm B, for compressing the spring 0, situated between the long arm of the rocking lever and the back of the hammer. The said sliding link is operated by the curved face of the lump F.

G is the secondary curved face of the lump for working the pusher D, for taking back the long arm of the rocking lever and putting the hammer into bent.

H is the sear, and I I the triggers.

The gun when in the position Fig. 1 is ready for discharge, so that on pulling the trigger I the nose of the sear H is taken out of the bent 0 in the hammer, when, in virtue of the tension of the spring, the hammer is liberated and discharges the gun, as represented in Fig. 2 of the accompanying drawings, so that on opening the barrels, as represented in Fig. 3,the curved 5 face G of the lump travels against the nose of the pusher D, forcing the said pusher in the direction of the butt-end of the gun, and in its backward motion rotating the rocking lever and carrying back the long arm thereof, and I00 with it the hammer and spring, the hammer being taken into bent, as represented in Fig.

3 of the accompanying drawings. Although the position of the spring is changed from that represented in Fig. 2, yet its relative position with respect to the long arm of the rocking lever and the hammer is unchanged. The sliding link E has, by the change of position of the rocking lever, as in Fig. 2, brought the inclined front of the said sliding link described under the face of the inclined part of the lump F, so that on shutting down the barrels the curved face of the lump, pressing upon the inclined edge of the sliding link E, forces it to retire backward, and in its course rotates the rocking lever upon its center, the long arm B compressing the spring 0 into a state of tension and retaining it in that state so long as the breech ends of the barrels abut against the face of the break-01f, as represented in Fig. 1. The gun is now ready again for discharge.

My improvements are applicable to single and double barrel guns and pistols.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a drop-down breech-loading fire-arm,- the combination, with the quadrant-shaped hammer A, located under the tang of the breakofl', and the lump F, depending from the bari rel and having reversely-inclined facm, of the sliding link E, actuated by said lump;the rocking lever B, connected to the link E,and having the spring-compressing arm B, the spring 0, impinging against the quadrant-lever, the sear H, pusher D, and the trigger I, substantially as described, and for the purpose set orth.

2. The combination,with the quadrant-hammer A, the spring 0, impinging against the same, and the rocking lever B, having the long arm B, and toothed hub of the barrel, havingthe lump F, having reversely-curved faces, of the link E, actuated by said lump, and the pusher D, interlocking with the lever B, and adapted and arranged to operate in connection with the secondary face G of the lump, substantially as described.

HENRY WALKER.

\Vitnesses:

HENRY SKEBRET'I, WILLIAM H. BABACLOUGH,

Both of Birmingham. 

